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The winter season is dragging on leaving our skin dry, red, and ghostly pale, but the makeup gurus over at Chanel has given us something to make the rest of the winter pass by easier. Chanel has just released a limited edition Radiant Glow Highlighting Powder containing a soft shimmer and hints of warm beige and rose tones to give our faces some much needed color. Using the brush that comes with the powder, lighten up your cheeks, brow bones, and corners of your eyes giving you that just got back from vacationing in the Caribbeans glow. The Chanel Radiant Glow Highlighting Powder is retailing at $65 available now at Chanel retailers as well as at Chanel.com.

Hair and makeup at the Spring 2010 Yves Saint Laurent runway show seemed a bit matched. Yes, matched, the hair matched the makeup, not in color, but accessories. The models wore plastic headbands that were a bit reminiscent of the giant, gaudy headbands a decade back.  Remember those cheap, plastic v shaped combs? They were about 2 inches wide and 12″ in diameter, you combed your hair starting at the forehead, then drug it down the rest and wrapped it into a ponytail. Well those odd combs were brought back on the YSL 2010 runway.

Rumor has it that the hair style was thought up the night before the show. Luckily, they had plenty of fake eye lashes to match. YSL’s makeup was all about the eyes. The rest of the facial makeup was minimalistic with light lips and a hint of blush.  The fake lashes were clumped together in sections, playing off the v shape of the headband. Actually, YSL pulled it off quite well.  Rather than looking cheap, it came off very chic.  Learn how to apply your own fake lashes.

Eyebrows can be one of the most difficult attributes to perfect on your face being either your best assets or your worst enemy. If you have tried all the torturous techniques of waxing, threading, plucking, bleaching, etc., here are some tips from creative director of E.L.F. Cosmetics, Achelle Dunaway, in creating the perfectly arched brows to shape your face.

Step 1: Start with a clean face. Using your tweezers, pluck away any stray hairs. If you have sensitive skin, apply ice to numb the brow area before plucking.

Step 2: With an eyebrow lifter, concealer, or foundation, apply right underneath the brow and blend in using your ring finger or a brush.

Step 3: Use an eyebrow stencil kit to determine your eyebrow shape.

Step 4: Mixing powder and cream, fill in your brows starting with the outside corners to avoid overly dramatic brows in the middle.

Step 5: Lastly, use a clear mascara to tame any stray hairs and create more definition.

Going along with the hype of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland film due out early March, Paul & Joe will be releasing a limited edition Alice In Wonderland cosmetic collection. The line will include limited-edition tins containing blotting papers and a mirror for shine control, blotting paper refills in a paper package, a lip treatment in a sweet milky pink for the pink tube called Fantasy and a sheer orange for the blue tube called Daydream adding a hint of color to your lips while giving shine and conditions dry lips. This Alice In Wonderland collection will be available at ASOS.com on February 25th and at Harrods in London starting March 6th running for £25 each.

This spring, Liberty of London, an iconic British luxury store who has been in production for almost 200 years, is going on collaboration overdrive with a set of shoes for Bensimon, a line of clothing and homewares for Target, and an entire collection of cosmetics for MAC. The collection features technicolor flowers and birds that looks to be printed directly on MAC’s classic black packaging on eye shadows, lipsticks, lip glosses, blushes, beauty powders, and nail polishes as well as two limited-edition items including a makeup bag a scarf.

The makeup bag will be coming in a small and a medium size for $22 for the small size and $25 for the medium size, the scarf for $95, beauty powders coming in Shell Pearl and Summer Rose for $25 each, eyeshadows in Give Me Liberty of London, Free to Be, Dame’s Desire, Birds & Berries, and Bough Grey for $14.50 each, lipsticks in Ever Hip, Peachstock, Petals & Peacocks, and Blooming Lovely for $14 each, lipglosses in Frankly Fresh, Perennial High Style, English Accents, and A Different Groove for $14 each, blushes in Dirty Plum and Prim & Proper for $18.50 each, and nail lacquers in Vestral White and Blue India for $12 each. This MAC Give Me Liberty of London collection launches in the U.S. on March 11th and internationally in April.

For their spring campaign, Mac Viva Glam is featuring pop sensation Lady Gaga and 80’s icon Cyndi Lauper in “From Our Lips” including two new lipsticks, MAC Viva Glam Gaga and MAC Viva Glam Cyndi, shot by photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Lady Gaga looks fresh and gorgeous without all her usual crazy headwear in a nude leotard, a creamy head scarf, and her Gaga colored pale pink lipstick while Cyndi Lauper is in stunning black lingerie sporting her Cyndi colored bright red lips. Each lipstick will be going for $14 with all the proceeds going to MAC AIDs Fund who’s already raised over $150 million since 1994 to fight against HIV/AIDs. The official release date of “From Our Lips” is on February 10th with a March 18th release date in North America.

Proactiv, once the leader in acne skin treatment, is taking on three new faces by the names of pop sensations Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, and actress Jenna Fischer in attempt to reinvigorate the brand. Proactiv has been slipping from its number one rank with their competition being the likes of Johnson & Johnson’s Clean and Clear and Neutrogena Skin ID.

Co-CEO Ben Van de Bunt explains, “We are definitely reintroducing big celebrities again, and we are coupling it with a slight difference in the conversation where we view acne as the enemy, and the best way to fight acne is with Proactiv.”

Proactiv is getting ready to launch their new campaign by fine-tuning everything such as rejuvenating the benzoyl peroxide into microcrystals to easier get into those hard to reach pores. Spending $200 million on ad time worldwide this year with the improved product and three new faces, hopefully Proactiv will resume its reign as the top acne skin treatment.